It sounds crazy, but for most of the last 85 years, it was illegal in Colorado for breweries to sell low-alcohol beers to bars, restaurants or liquor stores. Anything under 4.0 percent ABV (or 3.2 percent alcohol by weight) was reserved strictly for grocery and convenience stores.
From the end of Prohibition until just two years ago, 3.2 beer was the only kind of booze the big supermarket and convenience chains could sell in Colorado, so the law protected them against competition. In addition to the macro-brewer brands like Coors Light and Bud Light, a few craft breweries distributed 3.2 beer here as well. But the rules changed on January 1, 2019, when the state legislature finally acquiesced and allowed supermarkets and convenience stores to add full-strength ales and lagers to their shelves and 3.2 beers faded into the history books, along with Prohibition and pull-tops.
Author and publisher Storm Constantine, 64, died January 14, 2021 following a long illness. She was best known as the author of the Wraeththu series, and as the publisher of Immanion Press, founded in 2003, which published her own work and that of other authors including Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock, and Brian Stableford.
Born October 12, 1956 in Stafford, England, Constantine attended art school in the 1970s, and worked in the music business in the ’80s and ’90s, managing bands. Storm Constantine was initially a pseudonym, but she legally adopted the name in the 1980s.
The Wraeththu series began with
The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (1987) and continued with
“Out of Thin Air” Book Excerpt: Why “Idil” Is More Important Than Talent For Amhara Ethiopian Runners
By Michael Crawley
January 12, 2021
Five years ago, Michael Crawley, who has competed internationally for Scotland and Great Britain and owns personal bests of 30:07/66:13/2:20:53, headed to Ethiopia to spend 15 months living and training with some of the country’s up-and-coming runners. But Crawley was not there on a training trip. Instead, he was there to document Ethiopian running culture as part of his PhD project at the University of Edinburgh; training as an aspiring professional was his way of embedding himself.
Now Crawley has written a book, Out of Thin Air
“Out of Thin Air” Book Review: A Deep Look Into Ethiopian Running Culture
January 12, 2021
Modern distance running has two superpowers. Nowhere is that more apparent than the marathon, where 89 of the 100 fastest men in history hail from either Ethiopia (42) or Kenya (47).
Part of our job, as chroniclers of the sport, is to share these athletes’ stories; it is a disservice to simply refer to them as “the Africans.” And over the last decade, that task has become easier. Everyone from the
New York Times to
GQ have written about
Eliud Kipchoge, whose charisma, wisdom, and unparalleled ability have made him the biggest distance running star in Kenya’s storied history. The rise of social media has also allowed athletes to share their personalities directly with the world (I challenge anyone not to smile while watching Olympic 1500 champion